Glee Club

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The Glee Club presents its annual fall concert, featuring the world premiere of When Music Sounds by Joseph Gregorio. The work was commissioned by the Glee Club to celebrate its 125th anniversary in 2014. The Hi-Los, a small ensemble specializing in lighter entertainment, will also perform. The Glee Club is conducted by Christopher Kiver.

Program Highlights

Dance (from Invocation and Dance) ♦ David Conte

Nine sili nebesniya (Now the powers of heaven) ♦ Alexander Sheremetev

from The Testament of Freedom (texts by Thomas Jefferson) ♦ Randall Thompson

The God who Gave us Life

We Have Counted the Cost

When Music Sounds ♦ Joseph Gregorio (world premiere)

Wana Baraka ♦ arr. Shawn Kirchner

Penn State Songs

The Penn State Glee Club was founded in December of 1888, and is Penn State's oldest student organization on campus. Since its first spring tour in March of 1889, the Glee Club has performed throughout the United States and abroad, with recent tours to Wales, Trinidad and Tobago, France and New Zealand. In recent years, the Glee Club has sung at the National Presbyterian Church and National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh. They have sung for state and regional conventions of the Pennsylvania Music Educator's Association (2007, 2013), the Intercollegiate Men's Choruses (2008), the National Association for Music Education (MENC, 2009), and the American Choral Directors Association (2010). Since 2005, the Glee Club has performed major choral works including Symphony no.2 in C minor (“Resurrection”) by Gustav Mahler, Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms, Symphony no. 9 in D minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, and Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem. Directed by Christopher Kiver, the Glee Club’s members hail from all colleges and schools on the University Park campus. You can find out more information about the Penn State Glee Club at www.pennstategleeclub.com.